Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 2175.

Now, I don't know if it's the time of year. I don't know if something that's in the water,

but failure and bouncing back from failure has been such a hot topic lately. It's always one of the top

three, but lately it's really been on my

mind and you probably notice that it's been something in the newsletter, the podcast, we've

been talking about this. And it got me thinking. As a kid, I loved to go into museums. I'd look at

artifacts, hear the stories behind them, and I'd think and be amazed on the wonder

of it all, that I'm holding and touching and experiencing history.

And the beauty of it is that every artifact tells a story and every story holds a lesson and I was riveted.

And then it got me thinking, what if we looked at our own failures the same way?

What if we created our own failure museum?

Because the truth about failure is that if you're listening to this right now, you're

batting a thousand when it comes

to overcoming adversity. Yeah, you have scars. We all have scars. But the sun rose, and here you are,

back up, listening to this, and you're moving on with life. And it also got me thinking about wounds and scars.

I once heard an author who writes memoirs that people can speak from their scars because they don't hurt them anymore.

But they're parts of your body where you can see that something happened and you can tell the story.

A wound on the other hand, on the other hand,

is still painful. It's hard to talk about, talk from wounds. And failure is very similar.

There are some failures that are now scars that you can speak from. And you can look back at them

without the pain. And in some cases, you can even laugh at it. And you can look back at them without the pain and in some cases you can even laugh at it

and you can share the lessons now I want you to think about moments in your life those failures in

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